Weddell seals and shelf ice-associated cryobenthos

• Main Authors: Bornemann, Horst, Nachtsheim, Dominik A., Owsianowski, Nils, Steinmetz, Richard, Richter, Claudio, Held, Christoph
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Weddell Sea; Neumayer; Neumayer Station; Weddell; Riiser-Larsen; Larsen Ice Shelf; Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Polar Science; Riiser Larsen Ice Shelf; Weddell Seals
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/48790/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.652eb499-e077-4a1d-8692-9e5956a2b63e

Incidences of cryo-benthic communities beneath ice shelves are rare and recent discoveries. Images taken by seal-borne cameras at Drescher Inlet (Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf, eastern Weddell Sea) in 2004 led to the discovery of a hitherto unknown cryo-benthic community of crustaceans being attached head...